Short Poem of the Day 📝 Your promises are leaves in a forest deciduous fertile in fall otherwise green Debasish Parashar

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Those things most beautiful are never the same people and sunsets poetry and flames and love- Only their beauty remains the same JoLynn Juneau

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Life In 10 words beautifully toxic is excitement that still holds weight through memory PrttyBrd

7-Day-Candle Choosing sin over chance of fire I blow out the flame burning in a glass cyl. on my 5th day of mourning Hardening wax coats the blue sixpointed star above the letters InMemoriam Blackened wick quivers in a pool of melt Have I hobbled my father's soul?

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Radish The radish is the only dish that isn't flat but spherical. Eating small green peas off it could make you quite hysterical. N. M. BODECKER #IARTG #micropoetry

Short Poem of the Day. 📝 The Forest The forest is the town of trees Where they live quite at their ease, With their neighbors at their side Just as we in cities wide. Annette Wynne

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Short Days Longing is gristled Frigid nights with three blankets Tea too far from bed Cigarettes not worth smoking Limbs coiled to save from despair Kathleen Hensley

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Serenity Lotus in Chinese lagoon, between terra and firmament, trying to escape the one-footed crane standing fast until first fallen snow. Tom Frazier

Short Poem of the day 📝 "Risk" And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin

Poem of the Day 📝 Optimistic Man as a child he never plucked the wings off flies he didn't tie tin cans to cats' tails or lock beetles in matchboxes or stomp anthills he grew up and all those things were done to him I was at his bedside when he died N. Hikmet

Short Poem of the Day 📝 To Kαλoν Even in my dreams you have denied yourself to me And sent me only your handmaids. Ezra Pound (U.S.A., 1885–1972)

Short Poem of the Day. 📝 I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't Dawnlight freezes against the east-wire. The guards cough 'raus! We flinch and grin, Our flesh oozing towards its last outrage. That which is taken from me is not mine. Geoffrey Hill

Short Poem of the Day 📝 The wonder is how a tree scribbles on the sky how the sky plagiarizes without shame how the earth turns page after page of grass and we know this to be the only handwriting on the wall Jan Seale

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Theology There is a heaven, for ever, day by day, The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so. There is a hell, I'm quite as sure; for pray, If there were not, where would my neighbors go? Paul Laurence Dunbar (U.S.A., 1872–1906)

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Control I. See how that works? I. Not him her he or she or you or y'all or them no they, nor it. Just me, I. Then, just watch us. A. H. Jerriod Avant

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Apology The beautiful woman wears the same dress, twice. Rosemary Royston

Short Poem of the Day 📝 a moment of silence for the piano I never learned to play Elizabeth Alford

Short Poem of the Day. 📝 daughter I did see flapwing, one day you I swear chair to couch flew little flitter toe- walker red-haired dragon fly Sarah Busse

Short Poem of the Day 📝 We support a disposable world and wonder why so much, including ourselves, gets left behind. How am I to know you're mine? Timothy Fischbach

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Progress Now I'm into things so small when I Say boo I disappear A.R. Ammons

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Ritual After dinner every night, my father, standing by the sink, would fill a glass with water, place one fisted hand behind his hip, throw back his head, and drink until it was empty. Barry George

Short Poem of the Day 📝 My life has been the poem I would have writ But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau

Poem/Day 📝 Dead Letters People die, and the mail keeps coming. I know this because the video catalogues come back to me. The mourners scrawl "DECEASED" in block letters across Keira Knightley's cheek. I update the database. delete the dead. Sari Krosinsky

📝 Forbidden Mystery There is a mystery even questioning is a crime, 'profane', 'scandalous' I wanted to question the mystery, the myths that went on for centuries. Then I realized the questions are truer, stronger than those myths! I stopped asking. AS

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Wind caresses the golden wheat. Field's yearning for the new seeds. Dreams lingered, deferred until the next fallow season. Soodabeh Saeidnia

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Control I. See how that works? I. Not him her he or she or you or y'all or them no they, nor it. Just me, I. Then, just watch us. A. H. Jerriod Avant

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Perfect Dwelling A place to live the grace of "less is more" uplifted by the holy word: enough and another place next door to store the stuff Maureen Tolman Flannery

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Poetry to the Rescue You must be nearly lost to be (if found) nearly found A.R. Ammons

Short Poem of the Day 📝 I'll plant a row of daisy seeds, In the space below each eye, So they'll remind you of your beauty, When they bloom each time you cry. — e.h

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Monsoon And with the first showers Comes the kind of sadness Which only half loved lovers Can feel. pragya santani

Short Poem of the Day. 📝 Theosophy Astronomers report for perhaps 2 billion years, a black hole has been singing. Kate Angus

Short Poem of the Day 📝 January Children's fingerprints On a frozen window Of a small schoolhouse An empire, I read somewhere, Maintains itself through The cruelty of its prisons Charles Simic

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Reality: Short Definition Just the brain telling tales we are helpless to resist. Mike Essig

Short Poem of the Day 📝 "To what shall I liken this life?" To what shall I liken this life? It is like a boat, Which, unmoored at morn, Drops out of sight And leaves no trace behind. Manzei (Japan, 8th century)

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Aimless Exhaling breath of an anarchist despite chaos. I still inhale Pouting Roses Ignited burning hearts now adrift coolish stare the journey ends finding... sad petals and pouting roses. Ken Allan Dronsfield

Short Poem of the Day 📝 A thin line between life and death. There is another world, called love and hate. Love wins over death and life hates death. Rainy Sarmistha

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Apology The beautiful woman wears the same dress, twice. Rosemary Royston

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Revision Put the firework back together Unring the bell Gather up the shreds of scream Push it back behind your tongue A second look Is not the first And you've changed Since then. Jen Kohan

Short Poem of the Day 📝 i shall imagine life is not worth dying if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose roses(you feel certain)will only smile Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Welcome to my page! It's quite white! Don't bother your pen to ink a poem on it as the waves of my chaos remove what you write, and the page remains always bright. Soodabeh Saeidnia

Short Poem of the Day. 📝 There Was a Little Girl There was a little girl, she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good, she was very, very good. And when she was bad, she was horrid. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Short Poem of the Day 📝 winter ruckus I'm in bed listening the wind is slinging tree limbs leaves and loss Eve Castle ‏

Short Poem of the Day. 📝 January Who's it gonna be dragging that dead Xmas tree deep onto the woods Brett Eugene Ralph

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Merchandise When we have played with the toy life death takes it back without condition whatever the condition A.R. Ammons

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Bottommost We circle the sinkhole the coil spins in: when the speed is close and sufficient, a tube of nothingness opens down which attracted objects mill exodus. A.R. Ammons

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Connection We are all connected We descended from Oneness We will merge into the One —the cosmic Oneness Abu Sufian

Poem of Day 📝 Awaking in New York Curtains forcing their will against the wind children sleep exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded. Maya Angelou

Short Poem of the Day 📝 To Kαλoν Even in my dreams you have denied yourself to me And sent me only your handmaids. Ezra Pound (U.S.A., 1885–1972)

Resolutions 📝 Let us try to be good and content, Kind to each other, Healthy and gentle and brave, Obedient to Mother. For of such were the heroes of old- Patient in learning, Seldom rude, seldom cross, never cruel, From the truth never turning. A.E & M. Keary

Poem of the Day 📝 In Praise of Sake Far better, it seems, than uttering pompous words And looking wise, To drink sake and weep drunken tears. If I could but be happy in this life, What should I care if in the next I became a bird or a worm! Otomo Tabito Japan